Movable stationery

S I A T I 0 N E I Y

VOLUME 7

NUMBER 1

FEBRUARY

1999

What Pops-up Down Under?

Charles Duke

Christchurch, New Zealand
cduke@ cardinal. co.nz

Let me first define Down Under: the jewel of the
South Pacific, New Zealand, comprising two main
islands (each with a total land area about the same as
New York State), and a total population of 3.5 million.
Even in these highly mobile times, it is very expensive to
get items to New Zealand, and books, because of their
weight/size are no exception. Up to recently books also
incurred a heavy duty which exacerbated the cost issue.
As an indication, a book in NZ costs roughly 3 times its
RRP (recommended retail price) in the USA! This in a
country where the average wage is 50% that of the USA!

During the course of a year as few as 3 to 5
reasonable (and by that I mean pop-ups that have some
technical merit) become available in New Zealand, and
then in very limited quantities. Not one pop-up as far as
I am aware, has ever been published or produced in New
Zealand - the market is too small and to remote.
Similarly I know of no other pop-up collectors in New
Zealand.

So given these conditions, how did I become a
collector? Well it started when an old girl friend gave
•gygy^a^^aiaMaiMiMaiM' me, in 1984, a copy of The

Ultimate pop-up cocktail
book ' Now I enjoy a drink
as much as any man, and
this book was fun! A quick
check around home and I
discovered a couple of other
pop-up books belonging to
my daughters and thus a
collection was started! From
that point on I began
keeping an eye out for other
pop-ups whenever I was in
any Christchurch (the main
city of the South Island, population 350,000) bookshop.

By 1986 1 was traveling extensively all over the world
(40+ countries and about 200,000 miles per year -
supporting and presenting computer software) and while

this sounds like a dream come true to some, it soon
becomes a very lonely existence - away from home (I
have a wife and 2 daughters) for 5 out of 8 weeks.
Locating and perusing bookshops in every city visited
became my relaxation and what better books to buy than
pop-ups! It sure made for some heavy bags by the end of
a trip, so I had a self imposed limit of 10 books per trip
(not always reached or adhered too!).

Now remember that this was all before 'The Net' was
in common usage, and thus one had to have alternative
methods of locating information. I wrote to all the
publishers in New Zealand and Australia asking for
updates and publication
lists. A waste of time! I
wrote to all leading
bookshops in NZ. A much
better result with a
number who still contact
me whenever a new pop-
up title is available.

So this was how
things continued until the
early 1990's when three

unrelated events occurred that made for book buying
nirvana! 1) the NZ government started on an ambitious
deregulation program (duties, and import controls were
lifted), 2) I gave up traveling (well almost!), and 3) the
Internet was easily accessible (and online bookshops
appeared).

The bulk of my pop-up research, book location and
purchases are now achieved through the web. For me this
is both fun and challenging. Knowing how and where to

look is the challenge and
finding books, comments
and articles about them is
the fun . I use
www.amazon.com for the
bulk of searches, but find
that www.books.com offer
better price and freight
costs. As a matter of
interest it takes between

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60 and 90 days to surface mail a book from the US to
._ NZ - we are patient people!

There is a web site
that specializes in locating
and supplying competitive
pricing information for
books. It is www.acses.com
and is a free service. Worth
taking a look as it can save a
lot of Internet time.
Purchasing through the web
is as safe, if not safer, than
any other remote method. In
almost 6 years I have never
experienced any problems. Books companies have
accepted returns and also my word that a specific book
was never delivered. One area to watch for is that of the
same book being published under different titles (with
different ISBNs). A recent example: Ding dong! Merrily
on high2 and Make a joyful noise1 are one in the same.

Another information source I rely on heavily is this
newsletter, and I must express my heartfelt thanks to
Ann Montanaro, and all others involved, for the time and
effort put into its production. Very well done to all.

On a few occasions I have both bought and sold (I
have only sold duplicates so far) via a dealer in Portland,
Oregon (J. Whirler Used and Rare Children's Books
www.jwhirler.com).

So what of my modest collection? Being in the
computer software trade (did you know that an ISBN has

a mod 1 1 check digit?), I now have it fully computerized
(using JADE, www.jade.co.nz): all details of each book,
including a 100 to 300 word synopsis and a color graphic
of the cover, is held. The purchase date and cost are also
recorded (not that I would tell my wife the total cost of
the collection!).

At the time of writing I have 574 books, a few on
order and a small list of books I have heard about but not
yet located. Shelf space is
starting to become a
problem, but the computer m
system has no limits

The most oft asked
question is '\vhat is your
favorite book?" I have no
firm answer as each new ||
book is the favorite for a ;f-Xr*5'J7fD $b34H8*:$
while However there are i,' ■■-. ■■'; ■■ wK-iiaois; ^::-%£m
some I go back to more

often than others, and you will see mention of some of
them later in this item.

The second most asked questions is "so if you don't
have a favorite, then what is your least favorite?" Easy!
Any great pop-up I have heard about, but can't obtain!
(For example Tlie Baby Pack, published in the early 80's
and engineered by Ron Van Der Meer)

And the third question? "Why?" Because it's fun: the
thrill of the chase, the decision making, the expectation
and finally the victory! All the thrill of betting on horses,
but with a sure placing each time!

What do I look for? Educational interest is one aspect,
with The maths kit4 and The weather* being excellent
examples, innovative and complex paper engineering, as
evidenced in The working camercfand Sailing ships1- and
pure aesthetic pleasure, for example The 12 days of
Christmas 8 and Castles9

I enjoy books that are just rollicking good fun as in
Wicked Willie stand-up comic'0 and The naughty
nineties" Books that cover "things" in which I have a
particular interest such as Inside the personal computer12
and Hugh Johnson 's pop-up wine book" Natural history,
as embodied in Wonderful animals of Australia14 and The
ultimate bug book15 And the unusual, such as The fate of
the USS Arizona16, I want to spend the rest of my life
everywhere, with everyone, one to one, for always,
forever, now"ai\d a wee Japanese book that details toilet
training ls (can't read Japanese, so don't know the title!)

So that's about it, however as I know some publishers,
books sellers and Internet book shop providers read this
newsletter I would make one request of them. Please,
please ensure that any pop-up type books published have
the key words pop-up or paper engineered somewhere in
the title, detail or synopsis. Many web sites provide
excellent search facilities however most do not
sufficiently identify paper-engineered books. For
example, if "pop-up" is not in the title, new pop-up
books are difficult to locate.

May I wish all fellow collectors and readers of this
newsletter all the very best and
again thank Ann and her team for
their efforts. I also extend an
invitation to any pop-up enthusiast
contemplating a trip to New
Zealand to contact me, as it would
be a pleasure to assist in any way I
could.

What Pops-up Down Under?
Not a lot, but we have our ways!£££

'Ward Lock, 1984. Engineer: Paul Wilgress.

2 Godwit, 1997. Engineer: Francesca Crespi.

3 Little Simon, 1997. Engineer: Francesca Crespi.
"McMillan, 1994. Engineer: Ron Van der Meer. Also:

The maths pack, Jonathan Cape, 1994.

5 Hamlyn, 1986. Engineer: Paul Wilgress.

6 Angus & Robertson, 1986. Ron Van der Meer

7 Viking, 1984. Engineers: David Rosendale and John

Strejan.

8 Little Simon, 1996. Engineer: Robert Sabuda

" Orchard, 1991. February 19, 1991. Engineer: David
Hawcock.

10 Collins, 1990. Engineer: White Heat.

11 Collins, 1993. Engineer: Keith Moseley and John

Strejan.

12 Viking, 1984. Engineer: Ron Van der Meer.

13 Pyramid, 1989. Engineer: Ron Van der Meer.

14 Japanese edition. National Geographic, 1990.
Engineers: James Diaz and Rick Morrison.

15 Artists & Writers, 1994. Engineer: James Diaz.

16 Dimensional Graphics, 1996. Engineer: Sandor
Nagyszalanczy.

17 Booth Clibbon, 1997. Author: Damien Hurst.
18 1989.

Robert Reviewed

Adie Pena
Philippines

•k-k + -k+ ABC Disney: An alphabet pop-up.

Design & Paper Eng: Robert Sabuda. Disney Press.
0-7868-3132-4. $22.50 US. 20 cm x 26 cm. 7 spreads,
26 pop-ups.

Art: "All art for this book was created from hand painted,
cut paper."

Plot: Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a
pop-up Disney character. The House of Mouse finally
meets a master movable book artist and the results are
more dazzling than the Electric Parade along Main Street
— or even more spectacular than a synchronized
fireworks display in the Orlando, Florida skies. What
could have been a run-of-the-mill volume if executed by
someone else, Robert Sabuda's latest masterpiece
celebrates over 60 years of movie magic with paper,
paint and a passion for cutting and folding. Instead of
simply replicating the characters and making them move,
Mr. Sabuda infuses them with his unique style and sense
of humor. (See Pinocchio get cross-eyed as he watches
his own nose grow longer! Gepetto would have been
proud.) Julie Taymor (surprisingly with the blessings of
the formula-bound Disney folks) impressed the critics
and the crowds with "The Lion King" on Broadway.
Now, Mr. Sabuda likewise has proven to our pop-up
publishing planet that creativity and commerce need not
be exclusive of each other. Bravo, Robert! (But where is
Sebastian? 1 can't wait for the sequel. A is for Aladdin. B
is for Belle, C is for Chip...)

Paper Eng: Deceptively (and effortlessly!) simple-looking
but really quite complex.

Frankfurt Book Fair 1998

Theo Gielen
The Netherlands

The yearly five-day festival of pop-ups, movables and
novelty books this year again took place in Frankfurt,
Germany from October 7-11, located in halls eight and
nine of this immense fair. Especially festive since this
was the 50th book fair after the Second World War. As
a matter of fact, the fair started as early as the 14th
century, but lost its position in later centuries to the
Leipzig Book Fair because of the better situation of that
town between eastern and western Europe. Frankfurt
then devaluated to a mere regional fair until, after WWII.
Leipzig belonged to the German Democratic Republic
(the Russian zone) behind the iron curtain and was hard
to reach for western publishers. Frankfurt used these
changes and rebuilt the fame of the Book Fair of the old
days, starting in 1948. The 50th birthday of the "New
Series" was celebrated on Wednesday evening with an
ambitious party in the "Fest-Halle," with lots of well-
known writers and other celebrities hanging around at a
fair, with rivers of "Sekt" (the German variant of
champagne) and with four huge buffets: German,
Mediterranean, American, and East Asian, representing
all parts of the world usually present at the Book Fair.
And since we were lucky to have been invited, we can
tell you, you really missed something!

As festive as the whole ambiance was, that surely
wasn't the mood at many of those stands responsible for
the enlargement of our collections. Since the printing,
production and assembling of our beloved books takes
more time, and more and more takes place in China,
Hong Kong and Singapore, the packagers and publishing
houses have been effected by the economic crisis in Asia.
Besides, the very strong position of the U.S. dollar and
the pound sterling caused considerable problems with the
sales of this kind of books mostly originating from the
Anglo-Saxon world. The English and American books,
in general, grew, for this reason, too expensive for the
European market which traditionally forms a substantial
portion of English-language books (we heard figures up
to 40%).

A third reason for concern we heard several times, is
the termination of publishing pop-ups by Disney which
has done so many during the last ten years to exploit the
success of movies such as The Lion King, Tlie Hunchback
of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast and more.
Hercules appears to be the last movie to have been
accompanied by such range of pop-up, movable and
novelty items. This whole complex of factors made, so
we were told by one of the leading packagers, his sales

this year are down almost 50%. Another consequence of
this that struck us was an air of "playing safe" as the
production shown at the fair showed us: new editions of
golden oldies, sometimes under a new cover, blown up or
just in a mini edition. And "more of the same" by the use
of approved techniques, images or shapes for new
contents, making the production of titles easier and
cheaper since no new experiments have been developed,
pull-tabs, touch and feelies, etc., and sometimes also a
cut in the number of new titles. Altogether a situation we
regretted all the more since we didn't find published this
year some of the most beautiful and spectacular dummies
we saw last year. Publishers didn't dare to take the risk...
nevertheless, we have seen again very nice new items we
hope to see published this year. And some intriguing
innovative techniques that surprised us in a way as when
we first saw the wonder of a pop-up book and made us
realize one more time why we ever started to study and
collect them.

But let us start with the most interesting reprints,
naming those that will come in a different form.
Intervisual Books Inc. showed a reprint in book form of
Babette Cole's "creepy concertina pop-up" Don 't go out
tonight from 1982; it is now under the new title
Bewitched in 0w Town! with the panels of the earlier
leporello now as pull-down pages. And the mini-Nister
series with transformation pictures published in 1991 has
been reprinted with another look by using an oval
opening in the front cover where the earlier edition had
a rectangular one. These are published
by Pop-Up Press, one imprint of
Wally's Intervisual — the other being
Piggy Toes Press. David Bennett
Books from London U.K. has reprints
in mini-edition of their "unbelievable"
series: Unbelievable washday book
and Unbelievable runaway train
storybook coming first and, when they
prove to sell, the other four of the
series. Schreiber from Germany made
mini-editions too, from lm
zoologischer garlen (A day in the zoo) and
Meggendorfers International circus. Ron van der Meer
brings, on the other hand, enlarged editions of his The
birthday cake and from John Strejan's / love to eat bugs,
as Brown Wells and Jacobs did last year already with the
very big ones The giant pop-up book of dinosaurs and
Prehistoric animals (1-890409-00-6), a compilation of
spreads from two earlier "normal" books by Roma
Bishop, and Mommy and baby giant pops (0-964777-9-6)
which came from an earlier mini book, both done for
Reading's Fun.

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In the category of "more of the
same" there were a lot of new
titles, as we said. But, let us say
beforehand that we don't mean
any depreciation with "more of
the same." There have been
wonderful books published which
"invite" sequels. We think of that
beautiful series of '\vhodunits"
by Iain Smyth (The mystery of
the Russian Ruby, T/ie eye of the
Pharaoh, etc.); or a series such
as Flight, Sailing Ships, and
Automobiles we wouldn't have missed and cherish as
highlights of the eighties! And didn't Dean & Son in the
nineteenth century use their approved techniques for
series often or more parts and were they less appreciated
than the newer inventions? Not to speak of
Meggendorfer, Nister or - later - Giraud (Bookanos) who
all did, actually, some of their best ones as "more of the
same."

A new one not to miss is
Robert Sabuda's ABC Disney
(Disney Press), the only pop-up
book Disney did this year. And
what a one! A highly artistic
remake of 26 of these well
known glossy Disney
characters, for which Robert
uses the same form as his
Christmas alphabet, only now

the whole is executed in colors cut from hand-painted
paper, an effect strongly reminiscent of the way Eric
Carle illustrates his picture books.

David Carter continues his series of Bug Books with
Bed bugs (Little Simon, 0-680-81863-7) and has two
sequels on show for next year — Giggle bugs, a lift-the-
flap with a funny laugh chip at Simon and Schusters, and
the pop-up The twelve bugs of Christmas at Intervisual's
stand.

The highly innovative The great castle mystery with
the magnificent pop-out castle model done by Nick
Denchfield in 1996 (Harper Collins) will be followed
next year by a still more detailed and refined Invention
mansion (Macmillan). It is a mystery pack containing a
mansion model to pop out, a play mat and a book with
press-out pieces, to learn all about weird and wonderful
inventions from the Victorian era. Surely a must for any
collection.

And those who thought Choo Choo Charlie, the

Littletown Train with its wind-up toy train a must last
year, as we did, can be happy there is Fire Engine
Freddie to the rescue (Pop-Up Press, 1-581 17-012-2)this
year. Next year wi 1 1 bring two sequels, The big race, with
two wind-up race cars, and Paul Stickland's Christmas
village playset with a little train chugging through the
3-D Christmas village where shoppers are bustling,
carolers are singing and children are playing; with a
twinkling light and a sound chip that plays no less than
three beloved holiday tunes. All seen at Intervisual.

Intervisual also brings Harley Davidson: A tribute to
an American icon (Pop-Up Press, 1-581 17-013-0) with
stunning photographic detail, and informative text and
the authentic Harley sound built into the front cover, but
not too great artwork in the pop-ups. The whole
reminded us of last year's book celebrating the other
American icon, Elvis Presley. Mr. Hunt showed us also
a new musical pop-up version of that good old song 77a*
wheels on the bus, illustrated this time by Rosanne
Litzinger and hiding the sound chip in one of the wheels
of the bus. It reminded us of the beautiful version of this
same song in the pop-up book done by Paul Zelinsky
(Dutton, 1990) and reprinted this year by Orchard Books
(1-85213-272-8).

Orchard Books also brings this year Penny Dann's
The secret mermaid handbook (1-86039-690-9) as a
sequel to the earlier Little Vampire 's diary or The secret
fairy handbook, and will add next year The secret fairy
party book. And Iain Smyth added two new parts, Bobby
the lifeboat ( 1 -86039-680- 1 ) and Lofty the helicopter ( 1 -
86039-68 1-X) to the series he started last year with Dug
the digger and Ruby the fire
engine.

Sadie Fields Productions brings
under their imprint Tango Books,
amongst others, a Journey into
space (1-85707-351-7), a metre-
high pop-up space exploration, in
the same format as the earlier
Unwrap the mummy and Dracula
spectacular, all books with built-
in eyelets to hang them on the
wall. But make sure to read first
the well-researched information
contained in the book!

Emma Damon, Martha's friends (1-85707-350-9) is
a lift-the-flap book with a detachable wall chart to record
friends' birthdays. It can be seen as a sequel to her
Daisy 's giant sunflower published last year.

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Frankfurt Trivia

Theo Gielen
The Netherlands

• David Hawcock, the paper engineer of so many
books in recent years, started his own packaging firm:
Hawcock Books, 1 Pierpont Street, Bath BA1 6RP. U.K.

• One of the spreads in Michael Foreman's Ben 's box
was engineered by Kees Moerbeek, though he has not
been credited for it in the book. Can you figure out which
one he did?

• Mr. Steve Augarde, the new paper engineer (Mr.
Mosley told us two years ago he thought him one of the
most promising ones of the young generation of paper
artists), appears to be a gentleman in his mid-fifties who
was, before his work as a paper-engineer, a professional
jazz musician and bandleader!

• Robert Sabuda, so we were told Simon & Schuster,
is working on a Pop-Up Mother Goose tales, to come out
next fall.

• Ron van der Meer stated that his heart's desire is to
make a pop-up book of just the blanks of the ultimate
artworks of master paper engineers. We think it not only
his, but every collector's, fondest wish! So, when will the
book come?

• Massimo Missiroli, whose Struwwelpeter pop-up
was published this year by Schreiber from Esslingen in
Germany, made a dummy with all ten stories of the
Hoffman classic. The publishers put only six of them in
the final book for the known reasons of 'twelve pages,
glue points, etc.," and made their choice not completely
satisfying to its engineer.

• Chuck Murphy's Jack and the beanstalk, is the first
title in what Little Simon announces as a new series of
"Classic Collectible Pop-Ups." There is also available a
$100 Limited Edition, ISBN 0-689-82313-4.

• Heard from a Spanish publisher: there is in
preparation an exhibition of pop-up and movable books
in the Spanish town of Gerona to be held in the last part
of 1999. Maybe one of our Spanish members can tell us
more about it?

Intervisual Strikes Deal
with White Heat

From Publishers Weekly, January 18, 1999

Intervisual Books has stuck a strategic alliance with
White Heat Ltd. that calls for Intervisual to assume all
production and sales responsibilities for books produced
by the Albuquerque, N.M-based packager. Under terms
of the agreement, the two companies will remain separate
entities, with White Heat focusing exclusively on the
development of interactive books and sharing the profits
with Intervisual that result from the sale of White Heat
titles. In addition to selling new White Heat titles,
Intervisual will market the company's backlist.

Founded in 1989, White Heat has produced 180 titles
and has annual sales of about $3.75 million. Intervisual
expects to market 60 White Heat backlist titles and 17
new books at this year's Bologna Children's Fair.
Among the books produced by White Heat are titles
designed by Jan Piehkowski, Ron Van der Meer and
David Carter.

Intervisual's Dan Reavis told PW the deal with White
Heat "is a step in the right direction in restoring our sales
base." For the first nine months of 1998, sales at
Intervisual were down 41% to $8.3 million. Reavis said
the first quarter of 1999 should show improvement over
1 998, helped in part by better sales to foreign customers.

Reprinted with permission of the copyright owner.

Classes and Workshops

Pat Baldwin will conduct an eight week workshop,
"Eccentric Contemporary Bookbinding Structures" at
The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, from June 5
to July 24, 1999. The course explores the book making
possibilities for the various ways we use books ... to
carry stories, journeys, poems, sketches, plans, messages,
and tidings. The workshop is appropriate for the
beginning book maker to express individuality with
practicality and the experienced binder to develop
variations on traditionally structured book forms.

For more information contact Kristine Kowalsky,
Program Manager, at The Naropa Institute, 3285 30Ih
Street, Boulder, CO 8030 1 . Telephone 303^02- 1 1 90. Pat
Baldwin at P.O. Box 1 7 1 1 , Bisbee, AZ 85603. Telephone
520-432-5924. patbooks@primenet.com.

MGP Studio Book Arts Workshops presents one-
day courses in Bookbinding, Tunnel Books, Single
Leaved Structures, and Miniature Books. Marie Pisano
is the instructor and the classes are taught at MGP
Studio Arts, 6 Titus Lane, Plainsboro, New Jersey
08536. Telephone: 609-799-3941.

Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts has a

full schedule of courses for spring and summer 1999
including papermaking, bookbinding, and artists books.
For a class schedule contact Columbia College Chicago,
Center for Book & Paper Arts, 2 1 8 South Wabash Ave.,
7* Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60604.

Questions and Answers

Q. I am currently in the process of making an
annotated bibliography of horizontal split-leaf books.
They are perhaps the simplest movable book in the
tradition of the harlequinade and early metamorphoses.
Their simplicity belies a wonderful potential for
providing a host of connections, characters and
fascinating figurative transformations. They have been
known by many different titles, the more common being
"mix and match," "metamorphosis," "heads, bodies and
legs." My latest being Funiositites.

I would be very pleased to hear from any members
who may have a similar interest or hear about any
extraordinary, unusual examples.

Mike Simkin

87 Kineton Green Road

Olton, Solihul, UK

Fax:0121-707-4934

Q. I am about to finish the supplement to my
bibliography Pop-up and movable books. These are the
titles in the Random House series of numbered volumes.
What is number 22? If you have that in your collection,
please let me know.

Ann Montanaro

1 . Bennett Cerfs pop-up riddles. 1965.

2. Bennett Cerfs pop-up silliest riddles. [ 1 967] .

3. The pop-up Mother Goose. 1966.

4. Pop-up hide and seek. 1967.

5. Bennett C erf's pop-up limericks. [1967].

6. The pop-up animal alphabet book. [1967].

7. Pop-up sound alikes. 1 967.

8. Pop-up the night before Christmas. [1967].

9. The color book. [1968].

10. The pop-up tournament of magic . [1968].

1 1 . What do you get? [ 1 968].

12. The pop-up book of left and right. [1968].

1 3 . Babar 's games. 1 968 .

14. Tlw pop-up circus book. [197-?].

15. The wishing ring. [196-?].

1 6. The pop-up book of flying machines. [ 1 96-?] .

17. The pop-up biggest book. [1969].

1 8. Noah and the ark. [1969].

19. Barbar's moon trip. 1968.

20. Knock, knock: Who's there? [1969].

21. Story of the nativity. [1970].
22.

23. Going to the hospital. [1971].

24. Pop-up book of boats. [1972].

25. Pop-up book of jokes: Pop corn. [1972].

26. Eric Gurney 's pop-up book of dogs. [1973].

27. Superdooper pop-up counting book. [ 1 973] .

28. Eric Gurney 's pop-up book of cats. 1974.

29. Pop-up book of trucks. 1974.

30. Fun and easy things to make. 1975.

3 1 . Pop-up book of trains. 1976.

32. Pop-up book of cars. 1976.

33. Dinosaurs. 1977.

34. Farm animals. 1977.

35. Star Wars: A pop-up book. 1978.

36. Richard Scarry's Busy town pop-up book.

37. Pop-up book of the circus. 1979.

38. Superman. 1979.

39. Wonder Woman. 1980.

38. Superman. 1979.

39. Wonder Woman. 1980.

40. Buck Rogers. 1980.

41. The Empire strikes back. 1980.

42. Popeye. 1981.

43. Lone Ranger. 1981.

44. Nancy and Sluggo. 1981.

45. Return of the Jedi. 1983.

Pop-up Connections

Ann Montanaro
East Brunswick, N.J.

It has been my experience that pop-ups bring
people together. Following the publication of Roy Dicks
wonderful article "Pop-up Books'" in the Raleigh, North
Carolina. New & Observer (November 29, 1998), I heard
from a number of people. Six new members joined The
Movable Book Society. A reporter called asking for the
name of a pop-up collector in Michigan she could
contact so that she could write an article with a local
focus, and a former Rutgers University Library School
professor of mine, now teaching at the University of
North Carolina, sent me holiday greetings and a copy of
the article.

Rachel Kopel had a an interesting "pop-up"
experience. She wrote "This weekend [January, 1999]
I visited friends in Tucson and with my schedule and
the University schedule, the only time 1 could see the
Pop-up and Movable Book Exhibit at the University of
Arizona Library was for 45 minutes en route to the
airport.

" My friend pushed me out of the car at the edge of
the road construction and I had just entered the Special
Collections office and was looking at the second book
when my finger touched the glass and a VERY LOUD
siren went off.

"The staff informed me that we would all have to
leave since this was a fire drill! (My first in perhaps 40
years.) While I was standing on the sidewalk
exclaiming that I only had 45 minutes to see the show
before leaving for the airport, a very nice man asked if
I had picked up the catalog (I had) and thus James
Sinski, curator of the show, suggested that we at least
talk about the show while we were waiting.

"When we finally got back into the building he
continued his curator's tour of the exhibit for my friend
and me, explaining how each of the special artist's
books (my particular interest) operated when they were
not frozen in time and space in the exhibit case.

"It was not nearly as much time as I would have liked
to have with the exhibit, but certainly very high quality
time."

Louise Katz Sullivan wrote: "My daughter is now
working at a large bookstore in Los Angeles. A few-
weeks ago she was talking to a customer about pop-up
books and mentioned that her mother belongs to The

Movable Book Society. She was interested in learning
more about it." Louise sent along the customer's name
and address and she, too recently joined.

New member RD. Burton wrote "It's a small world.
As I live at the Jersey shore, from time to time I travel to
the Borders Book Store in East Brunswick. Today I
purchased a number of pop-up books. At the check out
counter the cashier asked me if I was a member of The
Movable Book Society. Needless to say, it was your
daughter." My daughter Abby enjoys both selling and
collecting pop-ups!

I was recently in California speaking about pop-ups at
"Reading the World" a conference at the University of
San Francisco. That same weekend I was able to see
"Pop-up Books!" an exhibit of 60 antique and
contemporary books from Wally Hunt's collection on
display at the Bank of America World Headquarters and
to attend the California Antiquarian Book Show. Since
I did not expect to recognize anyone at the book show, I
kept my eyes on pop-ups until I heard a seller ask a
customer "do you collect anything else besides pop-ups?"
I turned around to greet Kate and Gary Sterling making
a purchase. We had met at the conference in Los Angeles
where Kate had brought a number of pop-ups to sell.
After the Antiquarian show we exchanged pop-up news
over a wonderful dinner.

Frankfurt Book Fair, continued from page 5

Teddy 's party (1-85707-259-6), a pop-up book with a
party bag goodies as the under title reads, reminds us of
Bowman's earlier, but still selling, Teddy's Christmas,
published in 1994. And Stephen Holmes continues the
surprise adventures of Little Mouse in part three: Little
Mouse goes exploring (1-85707-322-3). Korky Paul
illustrated the new The Purple Mountain monsters (1-
85707-346-0) matching the magnificent scary pop-ups he
did before in Dinner with Fox, Mrs. Wolf and Dracula
Junior and the fake fangs. Do think of adding these new
titles to your collection.

Steve Augarde, the up and coming paper engineer who
uses so many new and ingenious techniques in movables
for the young child, did a sequel to his two tractor books
with Fire engine to the rescue (Tupelo Books, 0-688-
16328-9) and comes out next year with Lifeboat to the
rescue from which we saw the dummy at Matthew Price
Ltd. In the book there is a lifeboat on the left page which
can be moved by turning a wheel at the bottom of that
page. We racked our brains to understand how it was

done. We had to look between the pages before we
understood how the technique works. We will not give
away the secret; wait, see and wonder next year for
yourself, before tearing up the pages. Keith Faulkner
from Brainwaves Ltd. continues the success of his Wide-
mouthed frog (over half a million copies sold) and the
Long-nosed pig with a new pop-up The puzzled penguin
illustrated, as so many of his books are, by Jonathan
Lambert.

We have already missed this year a new title in the
simple but attractive, and with children much beloved,
Big and Little series by Ken Wilson-Max: Big red fire
truck, Yellow taxi, Blue engine, Silver space shuttle,
and Little red plane and Green tow truck and were
afraid he completed the series. We are happy to see, at
David Bennett Books, next year's sequel The little
orange submarine.

Ron van der Meer brings the equivalent of his Pick
and shop market place (1996, and reprinted now as just
Market day) with Orchard farm (1-9024 1 3-05-9) again
with the refined illustrations of Fran Thatcher and with
a beauty of a pop-up freestanding tractor among other
pop-ups loosely inserted. White Heat, unfortunately not
attending the fair, leaving their reserved space empty,
did for Envision Publishing a sequel to Alex Henry's
Nightmare hotel with his new Nightmare cafe
( 1 -85707-423-8) illustrated and paper engineered again
by Antje Stemm.

Carla Dijs has two new titles published by Child's
Play: Runaway kitten (0-85953-669-6) and Who loves
you, little beetle? (0-85953-961-X) matching earlier
titles like Daddy, Mommy, would
you love me if... , and Missing
mum/dad, books for the younger
child in her characteristic bright
style.

The author/illustrator who
appears to be most trendsetting
and causing "more of the same"
is Lucy Cousins. Coming herself
with two new Maisy titles, Maisy at the farm and Happy
birthday, Maisy (Walker Books), her formula of bright,
simple but refined pictures combined with highly
effective flaps and pull-tabs, can be seen followed by a
whole range of illustrators -- probably conscious of it --
who do books for the very young child, too. To name
just a few of them: Dale Gottlieb with Edward plants a
garden (1-85707-420-3) and Tulip builds a birdhouse
( 1-85707-4 1 9-X); Nick Denchfield with Desmond the
dog (0- 152-01 340-7) and Two little dicky birds (to come
from Macmillan); Ian Winton, Lifecycles {Macm\\\ax\)\

Ken Wilson-Max's Max ( 1 -85602-270-6) and Max loves
sunflowers (1-85602-271-4); and Gus Clarke, Good
night, Lucy (0-689-8 1889-0).

To finish this section we call attention to a book that
"borrowed" an earlier cover shape: a heart-shaped pop-
up like David Carter's successful Valentine present Love
bugs. The new book is / love you because . . . love,
Barbie (0-307-3320 1-2), a pop-up with a surprise present
published by Golden Press.

As a cross over to what we saw as "really new," we
first dwell on that special category of pop-ups beloved by
so many collectors, the carousel book. Those collectors
can be happy - we saw about twenty new ones! To start
with, there are the almost "traditional" doll houses from
which in last years such beautiful ones proceeded.
Intervisual comes with a Victorian doll house strongly
reminiscent of their earlier Edwardian doll house or the
Medieval castle, with eight rooms on two floors, a
detailed roof, double ribbon enclosure, and the usual
press-out dolls and accessories. A beautiful addition to
build up your own street. The Victorian house book was
done by Keith Mosley for Van der Meer. As with most
books that Mr. Mosely creates, challenged by the
standard techniques of these dollhouses, he has
something new in it: two of the compartments of the
carousel show beautifully detailed and demure Victorian
rooms - on two floors, four rooms - and developed a new
technique for flat floors where these mostly sag in other
carousels. The other two compartments have been used
for a wonderful front of the house with bay windows, and
roofs at right angles on each other. An admirable
newness of the species showing once more the
mastership of this grand old craftsman. Charles Fuge did
for Van der Meer the Spooky house of horror with rich
detail in horror and a wonderful rounding roof done as
the wings of a bat. Lots of pull-tabs cause movements to
heighten the creepy mysteries in the book.

Bellew Publishing brings Babe: Pig in the city (1-
85725- 1 32-6) to coincide with the major movie release of
the smash-hit Babe. By folding
around the covers, the Hoggett's
Farm, home of the pig and his farm
friends, folds out in a beautiful paper
house seen from the outside. A more
traditional (backstreet) dollhouse-
carousel done by Philippa Moyle was
seen in a German version at
Bassermann: Mein liebstes
'• puppenhaus (3-8094-0602-3), cheap,
therefore without a roof and without floors on the ground
level.

The new kind of carousel was seen last year for the
first time in two books by Nancy Hellen, Fold out doll 's
house and Come and visit the fold out farmyard
(Treehouse, London) show on one level four
compartments on each side when
folding around the covers. This
year Bookmart (UK) comes with
four of these "Pop-Up
Playhouses:" Spooky castle,
Dinosaur park, Dance school and
Construction site. And in France,
Nathan from Paris shows this
form in Thierry Courtin's
T'choupi dans sa maison.

More traditional carousels
were done by Stephen Cartwright with his Farmyard
tales (Usborne, 0-7460-3335-4), Jo Lodge with Busy
farm (Dial, 0-8037-2416-0) and the sequel Playschool
(MacMillan, to come), and Carla Dijs' Animals all
around (seen at Intervisuals) which has also wheels,
lift-the-flaps and pull-tabs. Nick Denchfield makes for
Macmillan a Dinosaur park (0-333-72304-X),
containing four fold-out playing theaters and four
freestanding model dinosaurs to play with - like having
your own Jurassic Park.

The most traditional carousels, with five three-
layered dioramas surrounded by a proscenium, came
from France, Danielle Bour doing a sequel to her earlier
Bonsoir petit ours brun with Joyeux Noel, Petit ours
brun (Editions Bayard, Paris). Bright colors, melting
story and strong illustrations make it a nice holiday
item. The same can be said for
Christian KampPs Zirkus karussel
(Coppenrath, 3-81157-1444-3), a
colorful circus carousel with six
dioramas showing clowns, jugglers,
wild beasts, etc. and lots of props to
stand up outside.

Finally, Frances Lincoln Ltd.
announced for next year a carousel by
Francesco Crespi: An advent carousel (0-71 1 2- 1 358-5),
a gem to look forward to! And Bellew Publishing
brings, in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum,
Amsterdam, and the National Gallery, London, Van
Gogh's house (Rizzoli, 0-7893-0219-5), a pop-up
carousel showing in four compartments the three-
dimensional edition of the artist's house as Van Gogh
painted it. It is full of surprises: the views from the
windows are classic Van Gogh scenes as "Harvest
landscape" and "Starry night," and on the walls hang
his portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Since these are

interchangeable you can arrange your own best-loved
Van Gogh house! Bellew plans sequels on Rembrandt,
Dali and Monet.

Now we come to the chapter of the new ones we
spotted, leaving out the simple fanfolded ones published
by Ottenheimer, Peter Haddock, Grandreams, Aventinum
Prague and other eastern European publishers, and just
focusing on the collectible ones.

Let us start at Intervisual Books Inc. where Mr. Wally
Hunt himself guided us - still going strong though we
thought more careful. Besides the above mentioned ones,
he showed us the new Kees Moerbeek: Santa's surprise
(Piggy Toes Press, 1-581 17-018-1), a pop-up story box
like a brightly wrapped Christmas gift, with a holiday
rebus ending up in a three-part pop-up Santa scene.
Wonderful and completely different from what he has
done before. This new way could also be seen in the
dummy of another Christmas pop-up: Twelve days of
Christmas done in a hexagonal form looking like a
bonbon box, to be out next year. Congratulations!
Another pop-up box on display was Rebecca Wildsmith's
The alphabet chest (Pop-Up Press, 1-888443-83-9), not
a book but a box without text but opening in 26 doors
each hiding a miniature 3-D surprise following the
alphabet.

With a twinkle in his eyes, Mr. Hunt lets the Red
Queen cry "off with her head" as built in a sound chip in
the new pop-up version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland, now illustrated by Michael Foreman. More
peaceful is The enchanting three-dimensional fairytale
storybook playset featuring six magical scenes as
theatrical settings, and press-out characters and play
pieces to perform three well-known fairytales whose
retelling comes in an accompanying full-color storybook.
Also to play with is the Curious George 3-D playset in
which everyone's favorite monkey comes to life in three
pop-up scenes. And, again, there are press-out play
pieces like the Man in the Yellow Hat and, of course,
Curious George himself.

Though most of the new items at Macmillan's have
been already mentioned, we have some to add to their
most spectacular ones. Two titles show Nick
Denchfield's not-to-miss masterworks of paper
engineering: Space shuttle, a carousel book revealing an
astonishing model of this wonder of technique, standing
free and ready for take-off — the most outstanding
innovation of the good old carousel book we've seen until
now. And, no less impressive, Pop-up space 2000 from
which we only saw the blank dummy, with an opened
space shuttle you impulsively want to take off the page to

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play with. Gorgeous! Mr. Dench field appears to grow as
one of the masters of paper artwork. At Macmillan's
stand we could also admire Andrew Bennett's Pop-up
globe (0-333-73295-2) that unfolds when opening the
covers 360 degrees. Nicely done, for sure, but we have
seen already more pop-up globes during the past years
and don't think that excellent one rotating on a string in
The Earth in three dimensions (Dial Books, 1995) by
David Hawcock has been surpassed yet.

The Thailand-based ORCH Print Ltd. of the
originally French Mr. Christian Le Grand, the
"inventor" of the springing cubes, showed the English
edition of Joyce Patti's The first Christmas (Dutton, 0-
525-460 14-4), a storybook with a pop-up manger and a
creche set of figures to furnish the scene. And - only in
the Spanish version - a similar wonderful circus pop-up
Viva elcirco .'(Suscueta Ediciones, 84-305-8432-3) with
a nice pop-up ring and seven loose figures to play your
own circus performances.

At Walker Books we saw - probably you have seen
them already, too - the new Robert Crowther Deep down
underground (0-7445-4945-0), innovative since the
backsides of the spreads now are in the picture showing
how the mechanics of the book move, how they have
been fastened and how the (only tab-operated)
mechanicals have been devised and made. And Colin
McNaughton's Dracula 's tomb (0-7445-5547-7), closed
by a green taloned hand clasp and packed with
Dracula's life story told by his diaries, school reports,
holiday snaps, favorite monsters and the necessary parts
of his equipment, ending with a pop-up portrait of his
creepy countship.

The so productive Mr. Keith Faulkner from
Brainwaves showed us a melting flushy giraffe in his
Can a crocodile cry? that works with wheels behind
acetate windows; and The big yawn in which all kinds
of animal toddlers fight against sleep till you let them
close their eyes by pulling a tab on the last spread,
bringing out a big "good night."

A nice variation on the old species of books with
head and legs folding out of the back cover and showing
different costumes to the doll by turning the pages, has
been done by Mr. Faulkner in two new books illustrated
by Manhar Chauham: Panda makes faces and
Bewildered bears. Not one, but a whole five heads can
be folded out, every face showing a different mood:
sleepy, surprised, sad, angry and happy.

And another novelty to come in two books The dawn
fairy and 77ze dusk fairy, will be a paper fairy actually

floating with just a small corner of it laying on your
fingertip. We promised not to betray the mystery behind

it. .

Sadie Fields Productions has a bright Fashion
through the ages by Margaret Knight (Tango Books, 1-
85707-325-8) showing, by lift-up flaps, in an
unembarrassing way what has been worn in history, from
overcoat to petticoat - and further.

Brian Lee did a new three-dimensional game book,
Ghost hunters ( 1 -85707-352-5), which turns into a multi-
level pop-up castle to capture the ghosts that have been
haunting Crumble Castle. And Pete Bowman comes with
a cute Teddy's Christmas library (1-85707-524-X) with
four mini pop-up books (6x5 cm) held together in a book-
shaped hardback box with a clear acetate lid.

Sadie Fields' Director, Mr. David Fielder, assured us
the firm was not and never had been for sale - as we
suggested in an earlier article in Movable Stationery. On
the contrary, as we could see in their stand, the firm
enlarged its activities with a range of 3-D cards,
bookmarks, gift boxes, etc., now also doing now the
distribution in the U.K. and Ireland for colleagues such
as Van der Meer and Envision Publishing.

With our final question about what Sadie Fields will
bring next year we closed our conversation as usual with
Mr. Fielder's winged words: "'What next year brings, you
will see next year."

So on we went. . . to a director who usually tells all
we want to know about his plans, Mr. Graham Brown
from Brown, Wells and Jacobs, the firm that probably
feels most heavily the change of the list by Disney. He
showed us the dummy of A book of daytime that has
several pop-up sundials and the information how to make
them yourself. And the nice dummy of History of space
from the Second World War onwards - among its paper
artwork a beautiful radar parabola. But most special, we
think, and one of the best examples seen at the fair for a
long time of what a pop-up book can be, is the dummy of
Anton Radevski's The wonder of architecture not yet
having been sold for publication since Ron van der Meer
took all the chances on the market with his Architecture
pack. The six spreads of the book show strong pop-ups
for Egyptian architecture with a pyramid, the temple of
Abu Simble, and the Sphynx; for Greece showing the
Parthenon, the Nike Temple with its caryatids, and the
statue of Pallas Athena; for the Roman period a glorious
oval pop-up of the Colosseum, Hadrian's Triumphal
Arch, and an aquaduct; for the Middle Ages the
baptisterium in Florence and a celestial French cathedral

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so big it doesn't fit in the pages, so you'll have to fold
out the nave yourself and click it in the front of the self-
erecting double towers - but then you'll have a cathedral
more wonderfully detailed than you have ever seen in
any book. For modern architecture the rounding model
of the Guggenheim Museum, the Gold Gate Bridge and
the Twin Towers in Chicago have been chosen.

Is somebody from one of the major publishing
houses reading this article? Let him contact BWJ to buy
this book that could be produced for a retail price of
only $35, Mr. Brown said.

And still we are not at the end of what we saw. On
our way to the last big packager we wanted to visit we
saw a new technique as simple as nice at David
Bennett's Books in the shaped book Left and right hand
with movable elements you can easily slip from the left
to the right page, even over the fold in between, and
back again.

At Electric Paper Mr. Pitcher demonstrated their The
nativity (1-897584-18-0) with a pop-up nativity scene
that has a special built-in mini book you can take out
and place back in again. David Hawcock did the paper
engineering for Nicholas Tul lock's Pop-up monster
talk, a history of such monsters as a scary mummy,
Dracula, Frankenstein, a werewolf and an alien. Also on
display they had two books with pop-up posters that can
be removed from the book to hang them on your wall:
The world of the elephant and The world of the horse.
From the not-yet-mentioned new productions by
Matthew Price Ltd. we saw another new Steve Augard,
When I grow up, lean be anything, a pop-up book; and
the recently published Treasure hunt by Matthew Price,
illustrated by Izhar Cohen and paper engineered by
Jenny Wood. Inspired by Iain Smyth's who dunnits,
here there is to be found enclosed a genuine 18 carat
gold-plated scarab.

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Talking about Iain Smyth, we
remember his new book The
amazing inventions of Professor
ScreM'loose (Orchard, 1-86039-
886-3) with weird inventions of a
weird professor. Also at Orchard's
the new Nick Sharratt, The best
pop-up magic book . . .ever (1-
86039-487-6) which will allow
young magicians to wow their
audience with the finger-chapping trick, the box of
illusions, and a bit of fortune telling as well. It was
funny to see how this book comes with three completely
different front covers for England, Germany and

Holland. The inside, however,
reminded us sometimes less,
sometimes more strongly, of that
early Van der Meer book TIk pop-
up of magic tricks ( 1 983).

Simon and Schuster brings
Chuck Murphy's beautiful Jack
and the beanstalk (0-689-82207 '-3)
as a three-

dimensional edition in their new
trademarked series of "Classic Collectible Pop-Ups." The
book being announced as "an elegant gift for book lovers
of every age — and perfect for collectors, too" appears to
confirm we are a species on our own!

Next year will bring another Murphy: Bow wow (0-
689-82265-0), a pop-up book of shapes featuring an
endearing cast of shape-sawy canines (as the blurb
reads) and ending with a stunning final pop-up of all the
shapes enclosed. And BBC-Worldwide has Wallace &
Gromit: A close shave (0-563-38043-8) with paper
artwork by Damian Johnston who brought a remarkable
number of movements to every page of this comic book
by Aardman.

We wonder who will bring out the English version of
Sleepy dreams by Leanne Louise Wilber from which we
saw the German, Italian, French and Dutch editions? A
pop-up book with an integrated stand to place it on your
night stand since the book has not only pop-ups but also
a real working alarm in its built-in clock.

But we were on our way to Ron van der Meer who
was with his big and attractive stand very much in the
limelight. As long as it took me in this article to reach
him, so long did it take me to have a short talk with Ron.
He surely earns a prize for having the most busy stand
with two or three tables always full of negotiating people
from all over the world and the always lively maestro
showing his new items in their midst. But a talk with his
brother, Guus, the director of the company, informed us
of their new items and their plans for the years to come.

We mentioned already the carousel books by Charles
Fuge and Keith Moseley. Mr. Mosely - we met him
shortly at the fair for which he interrupted his Bavarian
holiday - also has Cindy mouse (1-902413-04-0) and
Robinson mouse (1-902413-03-2), books with pop-ups
and pull-tabs but whose newness is in the front covers
with their unique moving paper sculptures behind clear
acetate windows (even with a pull-tab) that can be hung
on the wall. Also by him is Zodiac treasury (1-902413-
08-3), a hexagonal box the cover being a boxed paper

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sculpture of the zodiac wheel with an acetate lid, the

contents dealing with all twelve signs of the zodiac each

illustrated with a pop-up. And we

saw the dummy of the Moseley-

to-come, A busy day for Santa

Clam.

Ron himself isn't bringing out
too many new titles this fall after
the enormous success of his
Architecture pack (200,000
copies sold within a year), the Rock pack earlier this
year and the two remakes he did for Random House,
Sesame Street learn about numbers (0-679-89254-2)
and Sesame Street learn about shapes (0-679-89254-0).
This fall will only bring a first pack for toddlers,
Mathmaster 3+ done with Bob Gardner, the author of
Maths pack and a teacher of mathematics in the English
village where Ron lives. The contents of this first of
three packs (there will follow a Mathmaster 5+ and a
Mathmaster 7+) made us lament having already been
taught ciphering. What math pleasures there will be for
toddlers happy enough to be given this pack. We think
in the future all kindergartens and elementary schools
should be obliged to use only these books for teaching
mathematics. The start is there to make this possible,
for the books will be produced in first editions of
300,000 copies each! A new record?

One of the first books to come will be a Paranormal
pack Ron is working on with Uri Geller and from which
we could already see some really astonishing things. For
example, a flat disk that blows itself up before your very
eyes when you take it out of the book. Very informative
- as all his packs - proves the new Formula I pack with
real, detachable pop-up race cars. And we saw the first
paper works for a Holland pack with a nice pop-up
impression of Amsterdam and the beauty of a windmill
with turning sails - an octagonal one, in technical
terms. The Recreation drugs guide promised good
information, from cocaine and heroin to coffee and
nicotine, by the cooperation of the famous Amsterdam
Jellinek Clinics for addiction. This guide will be under
$10 and aims especially at teenagers to inform them
before they become addicted.

There will be a Van der Meer Old MacDonald's
farm and a Santa's factory with a new technique of
folding out a paper house, and an Anne of Green Gables
pop-up exclusively done for Key Porter Books in the
States. And a book we're asked not to write about yet
that will show a miracle of paper engineering popping
up almost twice as high as the actual size of the pages.
It had to be shown three times before we saw what

constructions he used and even then we could hardly
believe all that paperwork to see simply folding back
between the pages. As Waldo Hunt said to us earlier:
"Ron is a genius." Wally will have to take care that his
Intervisual Books Inc. will not be surpassed by Van der
Meer Publishing!

We want to end with two highly collectible new
books, to come next year. One by Intervisual Books,
fulfilling a dream Mr. Hunt has talked about for several
years, done in cooperation by two master engineers,
James Diaz and David Carter, The elements of pop-up:
A pop-up book for aspiring paper engineers (Simon and
Schuster, fall 1999). Starting with a dazzling
mathematical model, the book continues with a
systematical treatment of over forty basic elements of
pop-up, all popping up themselves in blanks for
instruction at the same time, with notes on what to be
aware of and all the ciphering needed to make
understandable why and how your pop-ups work. Make
space on the shelves of your collection for this book. At
the same time make a place behind the row on your
shelves for the second must-have, coming from Van der
Meer and done by a new French engineer: Animals in
love: Adults only! A real pornographic movable featuring
animals performing the Kamasutra. They had problems
finding where it could be manufactured, but succeeded.
They now just worry if the American market dares to
distribute it, but since the Starr report and the Lewinsky
tapes they are hopeful . . .

Convinced we didn't see all the new books of the
Frankfurt Book Fair but exhausted from what we did see,
we dragged ourselves to the nearest Biergarten where,
from behind an extremely big glass of beer - forgot what
we read in the Recreational pop-up drugs guide, and
noted the date of next year's Book Fair in our brand new
calendar: 13 October 1999. We will be there again.

Catalogs Received

Aleph-Bet Books. Catalogue 59. 218 Waters Edge,
Valley Cottage, NY 10989. Phone: 914-268-7410. Fax:
914-268-5942. Email:alephbet@ix.netcom.com.
http://www.alephbet.com

Ampersand Books. Spring catalogue 1999. Ludford

Mill. Ludlow, Shropshire Sy8 1PP UK. Phone: 01584

877813. Fax: 01584 877519.

Email: ampersand.books@mcmail.com.

http://www.ampersand.books.mcmail.com

Thomas and Mary Jo Barron. Catalogue number six.
120 Lismore Ave., Glenside, PA 19038. Phone: 215-
572-6293.

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Books of the Ages. Catalogue 20. Gary J. Overmann.
Maple Ridge Manor. 4764 Silverwood Dr., Batavia,
Ohio 45 103. Phone: 513-732-3456.

Rose Lasley. 5827 Burr Oak. Berkeley, IL 60163-
1424. Phone: 708-547-6239.

The first Noel: A holiday pop-up book. Illustrated by
Pat Paris. Broadman & Holman Publishers. 8'/2 x 9. 10
pages. $16.95. 0-805-41793-1.

Friends forever: A pop-up book of quotes. Pop-Up
Press. 4 x 6. 10 pages. $5.95. 1-888443-14-6.

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Page Books. Catalog 10. HCR 65 Box 233, Kingston,
Arizona 72742. Phone: 870-861-5831. Email:
pagebook@eritter.net.

Jo Ann Reisler, Ltd. Catalogue 47. 360 Glyndon St.,
NE, Vienna VA. Phone:703-938-2967. Fax: 703-938-
9057. Email: Reisler@clark.net.
http://www.clarke.net/pub/reisler

Ten Eyck Books. Catlogue 12. Children 's and
illustrated books. P.O. Box 84. Southboro, MA
01772. Phone: 508-481-3571. Fax: 508-490-9954.
Email: teneyck@ma.ultranet.com.

Good night, Lucy, [tabs] By Gus Clarke. Little Simon.
9 x 9. 12 pages. $12.95. 0-689-81889-0.

Happily ever after: A pop-up book of quotes. Pop-Up
Press. 4 x 6. 10 pages. $5.95. 1-888443-09-x.

Katie cat. Sterling Publishing and Balloon Books. 9/4
x 51/2. 10 pages. Includes stuffed cat to move in the
book. $7.95. 0-8069-3765-3.

Old MacDonald has a farm. By Frances Cony and Iain
Smyth. March. Orchard. 9 x 8'/2. 12 pages. $9.95.
0-531 -30 129-x.

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Unicorn Books. Pop-ups catalogue 3 and Merry
Christmas. 56 Rowlands Ave., Hatch End, Pinner,
HA5 4BP, England. Phone:0181-420-1091. Fax:
0181-428-0125. http://www.unicornbooks.co.uk.

Once upon a time map book. April. Candlewick.
6 x 1 1 14. 18 pages. $14.99. 0-7636-0076-8.

Robert Crowther 's most amazing hide-and-seek
alphabet book May. Candlewick. 10% x 8. 12 pages.
$14.99.0-7636-0732-0.

New Publications

The following titles have been identified from pre-
publication publicity, publisher's catalogs, or adver-
tising. All titles include pop-ups unless otherwise
identified. Titles reviewed in Robert Sabuda's
"Movable Reviews" column are not included in this
list.

Animal moves: A pull-tab book. By Dawn Apperley.

April. Little, Brown and Company. 8x8. 12 pages.

$9.95.0-316-04902-6.

Also: Animal noises. 0-3 1 6-049 1 2-3 .

Roxie and Bo together. April. Candlewick. 714 x 8. 24
pages. $12.99. 0-7636-0870-x.

Row your boat. April. DK Ink. 10 x 8. 12 pages.
$14.95. 0-7894-3489-x.

Snappy little numbers: Count the numbers from 1 to
10. Millbrook Press. 9 x 1 1. 20 pages. $12.95.
0-7613-0437-1.

Where 's Alfie? March. Orchard. 7'4 x 8. 14 pages.

$9.95.0-531-30126-5.

Also: Don't worry Alfie. 0-531-30127-3.

The Bible alphabet. By Keith
Moseley. Broadman & Holman
Publishers. 1014 x 10!4. 8
spreads. $19.99.
0-805-41288-3.

Bugs. By Kees Moerbeek. [Sturdy §

pull-outs] Price Stern Sloan. 7 x

8'/2 . 12 pages. $10.99.

0-8431-7894-9.

Also: Dinosaurs. 0-843 1-7895-7. Jungle king.

0-8431-7896-5, and Undersea. 0-8431-7897-3.

Publishers' Addresses

Balloon Books, De Balloon nv, Belgium.

Broadman & Holman Publishers. 127 Ninth Ave.,
North. Nashville, Tennessee 37234.

The Millbrook Press, Inc., 2 Old New Milford Road,
Brookfield, Connecticut 06804.

Sterling Publishing Company, 387 Park Avenue South,
New York, NY 10016.

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